Good morning, my friend, dear reader of this post!! Happy Sunday! How are you today? As for me, I am okay, I'd say. I did have some harsh moments this Friday and Saturday, but this beginning of Sunday, I don't feel as bad! How is the weather? As for my own area, it has been overall tepid, not much rain so far this fall-winter, alas. There has been days of much rain, where it pours so much water, but those moments are concentrated in a few days, the others are drier.
I think I could be more than okay, and there is at leasy a reason to celebrate, after all: Today, and if I want to be more precise, at 1PM of today, my Blog The Divagation Store, it will be 7 years old! How insane is it? 7 years, almost 850 entries! I wonder if it's worth anything, for the internet historians of the future. I want here to take the opportunity to say a special Thank you to my dear friend, the ever so inquisitive and balanced Mr. John, that I cherish! He reads and comments on this publication from time to time, and that means the world to me! It blows my mind, and as with ny dear patreon supporter, Ruben of the Aesthetic City, I never take this for granted.
It has been 7 years, I did not stop to think these days how much has changed, more or less, in this time frame, either for good or for bad. I have worked on portraits to people that at the time I was fond of, and today have conpletely vanished out of my mind. I wonder if I remember their names, even. Or, if I listen to them, if I have any reaction. I do know this blog was running when I did hear the news of the passing of grandpa, whom was so important to me. He was sick for a while, since his terrible surgery error in 2012, and even before that. It is weird to have this loss, it is so massive you lose sight of it, just keep running life business as usual. Memories are fragmented. I still can smell his scent, he did have good and stable taste in perfumes. I can hear the voice of his, and how enthusiastic he was in sharing his researches on science, history and theology. This blog was created on the office of his house, at around afternoon of 2018, June the 8th.
I hope I can work on a nice drawing to celebrate this milestone, while I don't I did generate an image with AI to mark the occasion, but as for the drawing, hopefully it will be done, sooner rather than later. Another thing that has become constant in my life: drawing. I started my modern history with the hobby in 2014. I had a group of people I cherished a lot, that shaped my life from 2009-2013. They slowly vanished starting in 2014, as they went to a different place. How the world seemed smaller in 2009, much scarier, much harder to comprehend. It is hard to remember, and hard to understand, how some events would sparkle so much memory and impact in me when I was younger, and how they seem trivial today, as I am 10 years in the future. Life before this blog, and it grows quite harder to have a cohesive timeline, as some recollections fade as they quietly lose inportance.
What a weird line of thinking, and I wonder how I went from this blog's 7 year celebration, into my grandpa's passing, and the friends that are so utterly gone from my life now, I wonder if they ever existed. I suppose the underlying theme of this entry could not be other than the passage of time. One theory I suppose on how traditions came to be, at some point it becomes harder to recall how one thing got started. Not the only one, but I think in my personal life, that is how it goes. One could use, and even needs, an underlying pattern, a story to wrap things and make disconecting links to make better sense and bring it all together. And so, the Romans became Trojans, and the Trojans came from the great flood. Hard to untangle the different paths, and even undesirable to do so.
Should I wrap the ongoing post, here, on this paragraph? I think it is for the best, because when a post becomes too big, it becomes a chore even bigger to read it. I have no desire to be a burden. Now, I should be back and real soon, preferably, I do want to have more good things to say on this unoficial week of celebration. Hopefully more posts to follow on the next 7 days, concerning this not small milestone. As I finish things off for now, I reassure the dear reader I should be back soon, so no worries! And of course, I wish you the best, and thank you for being here! And again, thank you John in specific, for the kind feedback, convos sparkled, and thank you Ruben, for being a patron. See you again real soon, more thougts and ideas hopefully to be properly registered! And so it goes, into another year-cycle for the blog!
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